Can-labelling machine.



GAN LABBLING MACHINE.

.A PPLIUATION FILED AUG. 1o, 1907.

Patented ot.6,19o8.

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. s. E. & w. W. MORRAL.

'GAN LABELING MAGHINB. APPLIoA'rIoN rum AUG. 1o, 1901.

' Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

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` y UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

SAMUEL E. MoERAnNnwiLLIAMw. MoERAL, oF MORRAL, onio.

1 `To all whom itmay'conccrn: c

Be it known thatwe7 SAMUEL E.. l\f )iEAL` and WILLIAM W. MORRAL, citizens 4of the CAN-LABEILING 1MAcHiNE'. l

Application `mea Augps'io, 1907. serial N6. 387,964.

United States, residing at Morral, inthe county ofMarion and State of Ohio, have invented a certainfnew and usefulV Improvementin CanLabelingvMachines, of which the following is .aspecification Y n i The present invention is an improvement upon the machine shown-in the patent of the yUnited States issued to Samuel E. and=John Morral AprillS, 1905, No. 787,628..l i

In constructing` and using the machine as shown inl said` Patent blo/787,628- we employed al belt, designated in the said patent as12a, of leather 4to propelo'r draw the `cans through the` machine, `and we found after I p someuse that the paste accumulatedon the belt to suchan 'extent as to render -it necessary to frequently stopthe machine to-remove the accumulation and clean the belt, as the paste on the belt would catch theflabel after it was wrapped part wayround the can and pullf it` ofi' aga1n.- Moreoven leather, being7 of a ratherporousnature,V absorbed a great deal of pasty moisture, which would cause itto stretch and thenit would slip on the pulleys and give a good deal of trouble,

and upon drying the belt becamehardand sti and would break` easily. We found a belt of this kind wouldtnotbe'durable, and was very unsatisfactoryk We also tried rubber belts and cotton belts, which gave some results like those obtained with leather belts. Thesediiiiculties erplexed us greatly until we hit upon the i ea of using a metallic belt and especially a belt constructed of metallic links with projections adapted to engage the cans andsuitable means forguiding such` belt. n

Our invention therefore consistsin the im- Y provements as hereinafter described and 'l view with parts of the belt broken out g Fig. 3 is a detail onta larger scaleshowing a fraction claimed. i

In the accompanying` drawing-Figure' 1 is a side view of the machine with our improved belt attached; Fig. 2 is a top plan of the belt and how it issengaged 'by the roller; Fig. 4 is a plan view of a fraction of the belt; Fig. 5 is a side view of the belt-guiding[ roller.

n the several views herein7 as in the views of the former patent referred to, 1 designates the bed, and 18L to rails supported above Vthe bed, and upon w ich bed and top rails the` Specification of Letters Patent.

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o erative parts are mounted. This bed` is As owntO be supportedu on suitable legs 1b.

2 `designates a label-ho der that is slidably supported and guidedby ap ropriate guides 2a siecuredrto the under sidi; ofthe bed or runway. The label-holder is pressed up to putthelabels' inlabeling position by` means of a spring 2b, drawing on a lever 2, fult crumedon the lower end of a rigid hanger 2 d,

extending downward from the under side of thebed. 'The p ressure of the spring 2h can by means of an adjustable nut 2e.

`3 designates the labels. These are placed in a pile or package on-top of the label-holder,

so as to be fed up and exposed through an n wheels stand or turn in a horizontal plane, Vandtpassing aroundltheir` rims, is the pastebelt 7 which vnormally runs in-vertical planes. The belt crosses the bed at the forward end of the machine at a point sufficiently beyond the label-holder to permit the can to make about Vone revolution on the runway by the time it reaches the label7 and the belt also crosses the rear ortion of the runway at a point where the abel will have been picked up and wrapped around the'can.

Journaled in the horizontal bearings on the front and rear ends of the upper rails are band-wheels 12 on which runthe belts 12a, which, according to our present improvement, are constructed of metal or of links 12b having projections 12C` that engage the cans. The band-wheels7 as in the prior construction referred to, can be driven by hand or by other power. Y A gearing with a hand-crank 13 is shown for this purpose at the forward or left-y hand end of the machine, as viewed in Figs. 1 and 2. The paste-belt is also shown to be driven by the same means, a belt 14 running from the shaft of the forward band-wheel 12 to a pulley 141?L on the shaft of the one of the paste-belt wheels 6 to transmit the power.

The cans are propelled or drawn through the machine by the belts 12 a, which act or operate on the cans near their rims or ends. 'lo give pressure to the cans where they take up the labels, those portions ofthe belts 1f?.a that act on the cans to roll them along are sagged by means of rollers 15 journaled in frames 15a hinged to the top rails l and pressed down by springs 15b secured on cross-pieces 15 between the top rails 1a. The rollers 15 are made with grooves 15 d of such depth that the projections 12 project beyond their peripheries. Y

Guide-bars 16, secured to the standards supporting the top rails 1a, can be arranged along each side oi the runway to keep the cans always at right angles to their path of motion.

In operation the paste-belt and the canmoving belts are kept in motion. The can (designated 17, Fig. 2) first takes paste off the forward portion of the paste-belt where the latter crosses the runway. As the can rolls along, this paste picks up the forward end of the uppermost or exposed label, which is wrapped about the can by the rearward rolling of the latter, and the further rolling of the can pulls the other or rear end oi the label, and because this end of the label contains paste taken from the belt it is secured to the can. The labels of course will ordinarily be long enough to permit the lap ing of the rear end of the label on the forward) end, which has been attached to the can. As fast as the labels are removed from the label-holder the latter is moved up by the spring 2b to expose another label in the runway.

We have not described in detail all the parts'shown and described in the aforesaid patent issued to Samuel E. and John Morral because some parts of said machine are not specially germane to the present improvement, and a detailed description of such parts does not appear necessary to an understamb ing of our particular improvement herein described. h or other details of construction of the can -labeling machine shown in said prior patent reference may be had, of course, to said patent.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a can labeling machine, the combination of a run way for the can, means whereby a label can be adherently applied to the can as it moves through the run way, a belt having metallic projections to operate on the can as it moves through the runway, a roller to press said metallic rejections into contact with the can, said ro ler being provided with a belt guiding annular groove of a depth to permit the metallic projection of the belt to extend beyond the rim of the roller to act on the can.

2. In a can labeling machine, the combination of a runway for the can, means whereby the label can be adherently applied to the can as it moves through the runway, two belts having metallic projections to operate on the can as it moves through the runway, a roller to press the metallic projections into contact with the can, means for pivotally hanging said roller, said roller being provided with an annular groove for each of said belts and said grooves being of a depth to permit the belts to project beyond the rim of the roller to act on the can.

SAMUEL E. MORRAL. WILLIAM W. MORRAL. Titnesses J. H. BARDON, C. J. SCHULTZ. 

